A HISTORY OF SURREY 



archway is panelled to the ceiling in early I yth-century 

 oak, with fluted Doric pilasters on pedestals, two on 

 each wall, and a modillioned moulded cornice. The 

 fireplace is of chalk with a moulded straight-sided 

 four-centred head, and has an elaborate mantel with 

 carved figures and panel of ' strapwork ' ranging with 

 the panelling. A small door in the north-west corner 

 of the room, opening on to the turret stairs, retains 

 its original latch, lock, bolt, and hinges, while the 

 main entrance door on the east is elaborately panelled, 

 has a carved lunette, and retains its heavy strap- 

 hinges and wood-cased lock. There is some very 

 fine furniture in this room. The table, of early 

 17th-century date, has carved bulging baluster legs 

 and an extension top. There are also a smaller cir- 

 cular gate-legged table of slightly later date, and two 

 sets, each of eight, of Chippendale chairs, one with 

 honeycomb-pattern backs. There are also some fine 

 l yth-century chairs. In this room the Duke of 

 Monmouth was confined on his way to London after 

 Sedgemoor. West of the arch are lodgings and offices, 

 while east of the arch are the master's apartments on 

 two floors. The east and west wings contain the 

 main provision for lodgings, the brethren being on 

 the west, the sisters on the east. These two wings 

 are of two stories with attic space in the roof lit from 

 the north and south gables, and from gables in the 

 centre of each wing on the courtyard side. The 

 lodgings consist of single rooms with a small cupboard 

 or pantry, and there is a simple closed staircase to each 

 pair, reiched from a door on to the courtyard, which 

 also series thj ground-floor lodgings. These door- 

 ways have solid oak frames moulded with a chamfer 

 and an ogee. They are square-headed, and the 

 mouldings are stopped with a moulded half-octagonal 

 stop on a broad chamfer. There is no arch in the 

 brickwork, the top of the frame forming a lintel. The 

 doors themselves are of late 1 8 .h-century date and in 

 two leaves, the staircases also belonging to this time. 

 The internal doors to the individual lodgings, how- 

 ever, are original, and are made up of tongued and 

 moulded battens. The windows are all stone-dressed 

 and of three square-headed lights without labels, but 

 in both floors tied by moulded strings. The gable 

 windows are of two lights with a square-headed label. 

 The walls are finished with tile copings and parapets. 

 The north wing contains, on the east, the chapel, 

 which is carried up two stories. Internally the 

 chapel has been a good deal modernized, but retains 

 its original open-oak seating, and an almsbox on a 

 turned post. There are two windows, one to the 

 east of five cinquefoiled lights with tracery over of 

 pseudo-Gothic design, the other to the north of four 

 cinquefoiled lights with a three-centred head. What 

 at once strikes an observer is the disproportionate 

 size of these windows for the small chapel. The 

 east window cuts through an outer string-course, 

 showing pretty clearly that windows of this size were 

 an afterthought. They are filled with painted glass 

 of two, and perhaps three, dates. In the upper parts 

 of both is glass of Abbot's time, showing his arms 

 and those of the sees which he held, of James I, Queen 

 Anne of Denmark, and the Elector Palatine their son- 

 in-law. In the lower part a portion only of the 

 story of Jacob and Esau appears. Dr. Ducarel, 

 writing more than a century after the time, says that 

 Abbot got the windows from the Dominican Friary 

 in Guildford. As some of this glass is apparently 



Flemish glass of circa 1490-1500, it is possible that 

 this is true, and that the remainder was made up as 

 nearly as possible in the same style. The windows 

 are evidently an afterthought, the subject is incom- 

 plete, the glass composite, and the verses under it not 

 such as would be composed in England in the I yth 

 century, when the old Latin hymn metres were quite 

 disused. About the time that the chapel was being 

 built the friary buildings were being finally de- 

 molished to build the Earl of Annandale's house. 

 The door in the north-east corner of the court 

 has raised and mitred panels with a fluted lunette, 

 while in the corner of the square-headed moulded 

 frame are carved spandrels, and there is a heavy 

 moulded keyblock. West of the chapel is the former 

 common dining-room, now used as a reading-room. 

 It is completely panelled in early I yth-century panel- 

 ling with butted mouldings and a dentilled and 

 carved cornice. The top range of panels is carved 

 in flat arabesques and the mantel is an enriched con- 

 tinuation of the panelling. The fireplace, a wide one, 

 is of chalk, with a moulded straight-sided four-centred 

 head and a raised brick hearth projecting in an oval. 

 The crane and fire-dogs remain, and there are fire- 

 irons, plate warmers, &c., of lyth and early i8th- 

 century date. A fixed bench runs round the walls 

 with a moulded nosing, baluster legs, and a foot rail. 

 There is some good I yth-century furniture in the 

 room, including a table with baluster legs and four- 

 way feet and a carved panelled settle with a high 

 back. There is an entrance from the court, and also 

 a door from a passage which runs through the north 

 wing from the court to the garden at the back of the 

 hospital. Both of these doors are of similar detail to 

 the chapel door. This passage has an archway at each 

 end, of two orders of moulded rubbed brickwork, the 

 inner semicircular, the outer square-headed. Opposite 

 the door from the dining-hall is a similar one 

 entering a passage leading to the kitchen, which is at 

 the west end of the north wing, and a serving hatch. 

 This passage is also entered from the north-west 

 corner of the court, and gives on to a broad staircase 

 of early 1 8th-century date with a heavy moulded 

 hand-rail, turned balusters, and plain newels. This 

 stair leads to a hall over the dining-hall somewhat 

 similarly fitted, with a plain barrel-vaulted plaster 

 ceiling, to the spring of which oak panelling is 

 carried. The fireplace is of chalk and has an elaborate 

 mantel, carved figures, enriched panels, &c. The 

 entrance door from the landing is elaborately orna- 

 mented with small corbel columns and a moulded 

 cornice. The north wing has a range of cellars 

 under it, and shows to the north a picturesque gabled 

 elevation with wide projecting chimney-breasts. The 

 passage from the court leads to a wide double flight 

 of steps to the garden, which is at a much lower 

 level than the court, and runs down to North Street. 

 In the garden at the south-east is a square brick 

 summer-house with open round-headed arches on 

 three sides. It has a hipped tiled roof and a heavy 

 wooden cornice, and is of early 18th-century date. 

 In the middle of the north side of the court is a 

 stepped gable in which is a clock dated 1619, but 

 apparently modern, and above and on each side of 

 this are three terra-cotta panels with the arms of 

 Canterbury, the initials C.A., and Archbishop Abbot's 

 own coat. The chimney-stacks are good. They are 

 of two designs, the simpler having square flues with 



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